Does Your Camera Get Hot During Long Shoots? Here's How to Hack a Heat Sink to It

Making things can be time-consuming, and if you're recording your entire process on video, your camera can start to heat up as the minutes tick past. Industrial designer Eric Strebel found his Lumix GF7 getting so hot that it would shut itself off.

Strebel's solution: Harvest an aluminum heat sink from an old PC and hack it to fit the camera. He uses his drill press as a milling machine, and I found his wire tip about starting from the middle pretty insightful:

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Social media has been inundated with shots of the historic levels of flooding Hurricane Harvey has wrought on Texas. Here are some images that really drive home the insane levels the water has reached: Interestingly enough, ants have worked out an effective defense mechanism to survive:

One from space, one from Earth

The internet is awash in self-shot eclipse footage, most of it pretty sucky. If you missed the live event itself, leave it up to the pros--NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and NASA--to give you the best views. First off, here's what the eclipse looked like from space, time-lapsed into

The details you missed because the picture was too dark

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Bauble or keeper?

The folks over at Lensball are selling a physical photography accessory that will presumably appeal to the Instagram generation. The eponymous product is simply a sphere made out of scratch-resistant K9 crystal, in two sizes: 60mm ($25) and 80mm ($35). The lensball will of course flip the image upside down,